Chapter 17: God Kill the Queen
With a shout, Torch flew into the Queen's chamber with the others arrayed behind him. Sabertooth and Wolverine were the first to attack.
"Let's go Runt!" Sabertooth yelled. He leapt on the queen and slashed his claws across her exoskeleton. They barely scratched the surface.
"Let me try mine!" Wolverine shouted, and slashed at the Queen. His longer claws managed to penetrate her hide.
The Queen screeched in fury, grabbing up Wolverine and Sabertooth in her claws. With a strength borne of anger, the Queen hurled them against the chamber wall, taking them temporarily out of the fight.
Iceman tried to freeze the Queen to the floor, but she freed herself and smashed his ice ramp. Ice man tumbled to the floor but was unhurt.
Torch let loose with all the fire he could muster, but the Queen's thick hide was not affected.
"Torch!" Hulk yelled. "Lets take Iceman, Namor, his sister, Colossus, Venom and Douglock and destroy the eggs!"
"Let's rock!" Meltdown shouted as Hulk left the chamber. She threw a bomb into the egg sack, blowing a huge hole in it. The Queen screamed in pain as well as fear as the future of her race was threatened. Meltdown destroyed the rest of the egg sack. "All yours Thor!" she called.
The Queen advanced on Meltdown, but Thor intervened.
"Nay beast, fight me!" The Queen swiped at him, but he dodged. "Let us end this!" he shouted. He swung his hammer in a circle and threw it. The hammer smashed through the Alien Queen's skull and returned to Thor's hand. Thor smiled and thought the battle over, but a swipe of the Queen's tail knocked him against the wall.
"These things just don't know when they're dead!" Meltdown cried. The Queen turned towards her, and she threw a bomb at it. It's left leg was destroyed but it kept coming.
"Die already!" Wolverine and Sabertooth yelled. They leapt upon the Queen once more and began slowly but surely slicing her to pieces.
When the battle was finally over, Sabertooth and Wolverine allowed their wounds to heal and an almost eerie quiet settled over the sewers. Hulk and the others returned from their mission and looked quietly at the Queen's carcass.
It was over.
Next: Aftermath